Saturday, May 23, 2009

If our eyes grow dull, other hands slack, and other hearts cold in the solemn trust, ours shall keep it well as long as the light and warmth of life remain to us." - General Orders No.11, WASHINGTON, D.C., May 5, 1868, Headquarters, Grand Army of the Republic"The solemn trust.""Ours shall keep it well as long as the light

Sunday, May 17, 2009

“Hitting golf balls is a problem, but if they turn their cameras up on the neighborhood and spy on us, that’s a bigger problem,” said David Mascarenas, a neighborhood watchdog who has for years fought the port to improve the community’s access to public land.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Last October, the Bush administration was touting a dramatic drop in the number of suicide bombings in Iraq. Well now the lull is over and the pipeline from Syria to Iraq is back in business transferring suicide bombers into Iraq.

Sunday, May 10, 2009

A ninth grade history project at a high school in Pueblo was supposed to teach students about terrorism, but instead it outraged parents.Gini Fischer says her daughter came home Thursday saying she had two minutes to come up with a plot for an act of terrorism.

A ninth grade history project at a high school in Pueblo was supposed to teach students about terrorism, but instead it outraged parents.Gini Fischer says her daughter came home Thursday saying she had two minutes to come up with a plot for an act of terrorism.

Monday, May 4, 2009

This is really kind of mind numbing and demonstrates what is wrong with Congress.During a House Judiciary Committee meeting, Congressman Steve King (R-IA) offered up an amendment to the hate crimes bill to exclude pedophiles from being a protected category under the hate crimes legislation.

Our Battalion had a 7-ton truck hit full of lioness switching out at a checkpoint. Many were injured and some KIA. The enemy knew that an attack on female servicemembers would carry a physiological impact as well.. Its natures way, when females get injured, males protect. Needless to say the enemies’ ploy worked but only for a short time

Saturday, May 2, 2009

The government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki said Al Qaida worked closely with former operatives in Saddam Hussein regime. The Al Qaida-Saddam link, asserted by then-U.S. President George Bush in 2002, came in wake of the reported capture of a leading Al Qaida commander in Iraq.

This is Firebase Vimoto, named for Pfc. Timothy R. Vimoto, an American soldier killed in the valley two years ago. If all goes according to the Pentagon’s plan, this tiny perimeter — home to an Afghan platoon and two Marine Corps infantrymen — contains the future of Afghanistan. The Obama administration hopes that eventually the Afghan soldiers

Monday, April 27, 2009

Al-Qaeda’s North African arm has threatened to kill a British hostage within 20 days unless Britain releases the extremist cleric Abu Qatada from a maximum security jail.In a message posted on a well-known jihadist website, the group demanded the release of the Palestinian preacher in return for that of a British hostage captured this year.

Sunday, April 26, 2009

On the cold afternoon of February 5, 1976, an Army recruit told his drill instructor at Fort Dix that he felt tired and weak but not sick enough to see military medics or skip a big training hike.Within 24 hours, 19-year-old Pvt. David Lewis of Ashley Falls, Mass., was dead, killed by an influenza not seen since the plague of 1918-19,

SAN ANTONIO — Sgt. Darron Mikeworth's first glimpse in the mirror was largely a blur.He'd just come out of a drug-induced coma three weeks after a bomber blew up his Humvee in Iraq.Mikeworth awoke in a bed at Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio.

Critics of the CIA program are desperate to convince Americans that no valuable information came from the interrogations of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) and other senior terrorists. They know that if our citizens learn the details of how enhanced interrogations stopped terrorist plots, most would support the CIA program.

Saturday, April 25, 2009

I should have died. I shouldn’t be here today, but for the grace of God I Go,” Allardyce told me a few weeks ago. “This is the first time I ever told this story to anybody. I want to tell it before I die of cancer.”

"[Ms. Napolitano] said the report was not worthy of the department or the veterans of this country," Mr. Rehbein said. "She gave us some explanation of how the report went out before it should have been released, before it was properly vetted by the senior leadership of the department."She was very sincere. She used the words 'I'm sorry'

Friday, April 24, 2009

Warships have done little to deter Somalia's pirates. But now it seems that terror on the High Seas is making an unlikely alliance with Islamic terror inland. It's a terrifying alliance: The pirates supply money and arms, while the Islamists have troops and the power on land.